That's what Ali G says," he said in a flippant remark for which he later apologised. That he found himself regularly competing with Massa rather than at the front of the field must have been exasperating but when he was given two drive-throughs at Monaco his frustration was given voice. Despite the win in China that followed, he was in trouble again at Monaco, clashing with Felipe Massa for the first time in a season during which the pair seemed unable to avoid one another on track, coming together on six occasions. There would be four more in a year during which he would be investigated by the stewards 14 times. By the second meeting in Malaysia he had received his first drive-through penalty. This year could not have been more different.įrom the start, an off-the-pace McLaren did not augur well but speed was to prove the least of Hamilton's problems. He was in the fight for the championship at the final race in Abu Dhabi, where Sebastian Vettel claimed the win and the title. That season, the absence of a close professional and personal relationship seemed to have little ill-effect.
It was my time to mess about and have a kid's life – to be normal."
He noted tellingly, after the split, that while growing up: "School felt like an escape. Perhaps it should not have been such a surprise that this hugely successful young man wished to be more in control of his destiny.
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